They are still there, technically, but only as low, rounded mounds of tumbled stone, each rising somewhere between half a metre and just over half a metre above the ground. What the maps recorded as clocháns, the Irish term for dry-stone corbelled huts of the kind built without mortar, with each course of stone projecting slightly inward until the walls meet at the top, are now little more than shapeless heaps.

The Dingle Peninsula holds one of the densest concentrations of early medieval and early Christian stone structures anywhere in Ireland, and clocháns of this type are associated with monastic and pastoral life stretching back well over a thousand years. The two circular structures at Baile Uí Shé were documented as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986 by J. Cuppage under the auspices of Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne. By the time they entered the record, they were already in an advanced state of collapse. The site sits in the townland of Baile Uí Shé, on the western shoulder of the mountain, where the exposure and the gradient would have made any permanent structure a deliberate and effortful choice by whoever originally built and used them.